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A silver swining: ‘Destructive’ pigs help build rainforests
Credit: The University of Queensland Wild pigs are often maligned as ecosystem destroyers, but a University of Queensland study has...
A new effect of red ginseng: suppression of lung cancer metastasis
Development of KIST-maximized ginsenoside (KMxG) using a microwave processing method for ginseng that increase the trace amounts of Rk1 and...
New long-term study affirms contact lens wear as healthy option for children
Six-year research of physiological response to daily disposable soft contact lenses published in contact lens and anterior eyeCredit: Centre for...
Pressure-regulated excitonic feature enhances photocurrent of all-inorganic 2D perovski
Credit: Xujie Lü HPSTAR scientists Dr. Songhao Guo and Dr. Xujie Lü report three orders of magnitude increase in the...
Opioid overdose reduced in patients taking buprenorphine
Study indicates the drug is effective in opioid users who also take benzodiazepines for anxiety, other conditionsCredit: Washington University Even...
Sesaminol: Parkinson’s disease’s surprise medicine
Osaka City University shows that sesaminol, purified from industrial sesame seed by-product, can help prevent Parkinson's disease.Credit: Akiko Kojima-Yuasa Sesame...
Researchers offer new insights on bird migration
Credit: Benjamin Metzger During their seasonal migration, birds typically travel between breeding and non-breeding grounds along migratory routes grouped into...
Researchers identify brain ion channel as new approach to treating depression
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a drug that...
The social and economic cost of eating disorders in the United States
Credit: J Streatfeild et al., International Journal of Eating Disorders (2021) The impact of eating disorders in the United States...
Chickpea genetics reduce need for chemicals
Credit: George Vandemark In recent years, hummus has become a pop culture food phenomenon, drawing praises from dieticians for the...
Reclamation awards $3.6 million to improve desalination technologies
Credit: Alex Stephens/Bureau of Reclamation WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is awarding $3.6 million to 10 projects for advanced...
Cooperative eco-driving automation improves energy efficiency and safety
Credit: Sarah Atkinson/Michigan Tech Imagine you're driving up a hill toward a traffic light. The light is still green so...
Solving the biochemical conundrum at the dawn of life on Earth
UNC-Chapel Hill scientists Charles Carter, Qi Zhang, and Abigail Knight were awarded $1 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation to...
Food for thought: New maps reveal how brains are kept nourished
Micro-scale depictions solve century-old puzzle of brain energy use and blood vessel clustersCredit: Xiang Ji and Edmund O'Donnell, UC San...
Scientists use forest color to gauge permafrost depth
Credit: Veronika Döpper Scientists regularly use remote sensing drones and satellites to record how climate change affects permafrost thaw rates...
A quantum internet is closer to reality, thanks to this switch
New approach could help quantum networks to support more users without losing dataCredit: Purdue University/Navin Lingaraju WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. --...
Novel drug prevents amyloid plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease
In animal models, the new compound modulated a key enzyme, reducing or eliminating production of problematic protein fragments; human clinical...
Indoors, outdoors, 6 feet apart? Transmission risk of airborne viruses can be quantified
The dynamics of how aerosols travel from one person to another, under different circumstancesCredit: Mj Riches In the 1995 movie...
Oregon researchers unveil the weaving fractal network of connecting neurons
Quest to design implants to treat macular degeneration leads research team to a discovery that connectivity is completed with a...
A Skoltech robot analyzes shoppers’ behavior
Credit: Skoltech Researchers from Skoltech's Intelligent Space Robotics Lab have proposed a novel method for customer behavior analytics and demand...
